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Whisper (OpenAI) pricing

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Voice · Vendor site 2026-10-04

OpenAI Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition model trained on large-scale weak supervision. Developers can run Whisper locally from the GitHub repository or use OpenAI transcription APIs for hosted speech-to-text in production apps.

Updated 2026-10-04View sources
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Category
Voice
Free access
Model weights and inference code are open source on GitHub under the MIT license
API access
OpenAI API pricing lists hosted Whisper transcription at $0.006 per minute

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Whisper (OpenAI) pricing & plans

Free

Free

Model weights and inference code are open source on GitHub under the MIT license

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Model weights and inference code are open source on GitHub under the MIT license

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Whisper (OpenAI) pricing questions

Is Whisper (OpenAI) free?

Yes. Whisper (OpenAI) has an ongoing free plan. Model weights and inference code are open source on GitHub under the MIT license

How much does Whisper (OpenAI) cost?

Whisper (OpenAI) is listed as free. No paid plan with a published price was found.

Does Whisper (OpenAI) have an API?

API or developer access is mentioned. OpenAI API pricing lists hosted Whisper transcription at $0.006 per minute